Lead Software Engineer - Python DuckDb

Join an agile team where your technical expertise will drive innovation, career growth, and impactful solutions for the finance organization.

As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within Cross Risk Calculations Technology, you will design, build, and deliver secure, scalable technology products that support the firm's business objectives. You will collaborate with business and technical teams to translate needs into efficient solutions and promote productivity across the organization.

Job responsibilities

• Design, develop, implement, and maintain solutions to increase productivity across the finance organization
• Apply strong analytical and problem-solving skills to technical challenges
• Research new technologies and libraries to benefit the team
• Advance projects with minimal oversight and high self-motivation
• Collaborate with business and technical colleagues to build efficient solutions
• Translate business needs into technical requirements
• Create executive-level readouts and status updates for clients and senior management

Required qualifications, capabilities and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
• Expert in Python or other programming languages for building large-scale distributed systems
• Experience in data analytics using Pandas and Numpy
• Proficient in writing effective, scalable, object-oriented code
• Experience building API services from scratch and structuring projects
• Strong understanding of data modeling and querying relational databases
• Excellent analytical, quantitative, and problem-solving skills

Preferred qualifications, capabilities and skills

• Knowledge of front-end languages such as JavaScript
• Experience with open source orchestration frameworks like Airflow or Dagster
• Hands-on experience with AWS services and cloud architecture along with proficiency in Terraform for infrastructure automation
• Understanding of financial engineering, investment banking, or derivative trading